Welcome

The Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona is comprised of faculty, fellows, students, and technical staff working together to understand human disease.

The discipline of pharmacology explores biology through the actions of drugs and chemical substances. Drugs and chemicals produce their effects only through modification of underlying biological systems; their actions are useful in regulating not only normal functions of cells and organisms but also the abnormal processes which occur in disease.

Our faculty are dedicated investigators pursuing questions of human disease by taking advantage of new knowledge in genomics, proteomics, cell and molecular biology, integrated systems and chemistry.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide quality preclinical and clinical education in pharmacology and therapeutics for medical students, to educate and train graduate and postdoctoral biomedical scientists, to carry out basic research of recognized excellence, and to participate in governance and leadership in the College of Medicine, The University of Arizona and in appropriate national scientific and professional societies.

I. Glenn Sipes, Ph.D.
Professor and Head